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West Ruin at Aztec Ruins National Monument in 1940s

perspective view, from the south near Great Kiva, of junction of North and East Wings

U.S. National Park Service

Aztec Ruins, built and used over a 200-year period, is the largest ancestral Pueblo community in the Animas River valley. Concentrated on and below a terrace overlooking the Animas River, the people at Aztec built several multi-story buildings called great houses and many smaller structures. An interesting 700 yard trail leads visitors through the West Ruin, an excavated great house that had at least 400 interconnected rooms built around an open plaza. Its massive sandstone walls tower over 30 feet. Many rooms contain the original pine, spruce, and aspen beams hauled from distant mountains. || Original photos probably taken sometime in the 1940s.

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Aztec Ruins National Monument, Code: AZRU
HABS/HAER/HALS Programs, Code: HABS-HAER

Aztec Ruins National Monument, San Juan County, New Mexico
Latitude: 36.836799621582, Longitude: -108

Other : HABS No. NM-165-A
Other : HABS NM, 23-AZ.V, 1-A
Other : HABS, NM,23-AZ.V,1-A-1
Other : HABS, NM,23-AZ.V,1-A-2
Other : HABS, NM,23-AZ.V,1-A-3
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Other : HABS, NM,23-AZ.V,1-A-5
Other : HABS, NM,23-AZ.V,1-A-6
Legacy NPS Focus Record ID : 232472

Historic American Buildings Survey / Historic American Engineering Record Collection

04/08/2005

01/01/1940 - 12/30/1950

Original print version: in Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

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